Round 14.

Soatok Dreamseeker

Round 14.

Fediverse, in which range does your favorite number lie? Vote below!

I also want to answer a question that keeps coming up:

These are all unsigned integers.
Floating point values and negative numbers are not in scope. Certainly no complex numbers or quaternions, either.

Just a simple binary search over uint32_t values, originally scoped between 0 and ~1 million.

Hope that helps! :3

Anyway, back to voting:

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

@soatok I know what number it's going to be but I'm still voting the other way to try to get my actual favourite number.

F4GRX SÃ©bastien

@gsuberland @soatok you're not telling, so whatever you choose, you'll be able to I told you so everyone.

Hmm that might be the actual point.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

@f4grx @soatok I'd publish a proof hash but y'all would just crack it 'cos the data space is too small lol

Soatok Dreamseeker

@gsuberland @f4grx Download the bcrypt implementation from @ryanc and calculate a high cost so it takes like 3 hours per hash trial

Johann z. Baag (ej af Puss-B.)

@gsuberland Here’s the beginning of the sha512sum for my answer (with a salt): e05672e1a5

@f4grx @soatok

Soatok Dreamseeker

Round 15

That was so close!

Alright, Fedi. We're getting closer. Which range represents your favorite number.

(If we ever get a perfect tie, the answer is NaN.)

Edan Osborne 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸

@soatok Are we seriously not going for 73‽ The perfect number‽

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@soatok @gsuberland @f4grx the cost parameter on that thing goes all the way up to 99, if you wanna hash until the sun burns out

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@soatok @gsuberland @f4grx If Soatok doesn't continue this until we've hit the limit of double precision floating point, I will be disappointed.

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@soatok @gsuberland @f4grx I do not believe any was promised an integer

{Insert Pasta Pun}

@ryanc @soatok @gsuberland @f4grx noooooo

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@EdanOsborne @soatok 28 is a perfect number

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@zenfin @gsuberland @f4grx @soatok I see exactly what you're doing there.

Luna Rood

@ryanc @soatok @gsuberland @f4grx If Soatok were to change his mind on the set [1], I'd be utterly disappointed, considering that the poll framing fundamentally requires restricting the space to integers, as I alluded to [2].

Under the given conditions, a sudden change to reals, or another larger set, would effectively invalidate the entire prior search.

I maintain that mathematical rigour is paramount in such consequential endeavours!

[1] https://furry.engineer/@soatok/113794042080702966
[2] https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lunarood/113789357645694281

Soatok Dreamseeker

@lunarood @ryanc @gsuberland @f4grx Yeah I'm not continuing this particular series into the floats

Soatok Dreamseeker

Round 16

(Had to repost it to keep it in the thread. Sorry about that!)

The last round was 201 to 199.

Another!

Luna Rood

@soatok @ryanc @gsuberland @f4grx I am very glad you are maintaining the scientific rigour of your research!

Of course, I would have preferred if you had preregistered your methodology prior to commencing data gathering, but I don't think this omission completely invalidates the validity and significance of this research

(Ok, I'm done with the bit. I just had to get it out of my system )

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@lunarood @soatok @gsuberland @f4grx fine, I'll do floats

Soatok Dreamseeker

Round 17

Only a few more to go.